Retail Banking Job Trends

Retail Banking
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail Banking over the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 758 617 582
Rank change year-on-year -141 -35 +23
Permanent jobs citing Retail Banking 50 63 188
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.042% 0.13% 0.26%
As % of the General category 0.092% 0.19% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 16 27 80
10th Percentile £53,750 - £56,000
25th Percentile £78,438 £65,000 £68,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.24% +3.13% +5.89%
75th Percentile £113,750 £88,750 £122,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £118,750 £125,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £71,250 £85,000
% change year-on-year +19.30% -16.18% +12.50%

All General Skills
UK

Retail Banking falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 54,481 34,039 41,928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.21% 68.39% 57.80%
Number of salaries quoted 33,282 17,681 20,732
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £33,750 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £96,000 £96,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £43,095 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.02% -13.81% -0.99%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Retail Banking relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Retail Banking job vacancy trend in the UK

Retail Banking
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Retail Banking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Retail Banking

Retail Banking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail Banking over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail Banking within the UK over the 6 months to 9 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -147 49 £102,500 +24.24% 81
London -88 33 £107,500 +30.30% 53
Work from Home -24 16 £107,500 +32.31% 36
UK excluding London -125 16 £85,000 +19.30% 31
North of England -66 9 £68,750 +5.77% 16
North West -18 6 £68,750 +5.77% 10
Midlands -43 3 £102,500 +32.26% 3
Yorkshire - 3 - - 5
South West - 3 - - 2
East Midlands -33 2 - -
West Midlands - 1 £102,500 - 3
Scotland - 1 - - 3

Retail Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 19 (38.00%) Azure
2 15 (30.00%) AWS
3 10 (20.00%) GCP
4 9 (18.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 8 (16.00%) Power Platform
6 7 (14.00%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (14.00%) Mimecast
7 6 (12.00%) SaaS
8 4 (8.00%) Amazon S3
8 4 (8.00%) Snowflake
9 3 (6.00%) Dagster
10 2 (4.00%) Amazon Bedrock
10 2 (4.00%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (4.00%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (4.00%) Collibra
10 2 (4.00%) Datadog
10 2 (4.00%) Serverless
10 2 (4.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.00%) Power BI
2 7 (14.00%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (14.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.00%) MySQL
4 2 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (4.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.00%) Metadata
4 2 (4.00%) Pinecone
5 1 (2.00%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 5 (10.00%) Git
2 2 (4.00%) JIRA
3 1 (2.00%) GitLab
General
1 48 (96.00%) Banking
2 45 (90.00%) Finance
3 14 (28.00%) Social Skills
4 11 (22.00%) Corporate Banking
4 11 (22.00%) Law
5 10 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (20.00%) Investment Banking
6 9 (18.00%) Legal
7 6 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (10.00%) Retail
9 3 (6.00%) Marketing
10 2 (4.00%) Financial Institution
10 2 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (2.00%) Electronics
11 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (26.00%) Senior
2 9 (18.00%) Software Engineer
3 7 (14.00%) Graduate
3 7 (14.00%) Graduate Software Engineer
4 6 (12.00%) Lead
5 5 (10.00%) Architect
5 5 (10.00%) Data Scientist
5 5 (10.00%) Lead Data Scientist
5 5 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Senior Data Scientist
6 3 (6.00%) Data Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Senior Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Business Sales Executive
7 2 (4.00%) Data Migration Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Migration Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Sales Account Executive
7 2 (4.00%) Technology Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.00%) NumPy
1 8 (16.00%) Pandas
2 5 (10.00%) scikit-learn
2 5 (10.00%) XGBoost
3 4 (8.00%) GraphQL
4 3 (6.00%) jQuery
4 3 (6.00%) PySpark
4 3 (6.00%) React
4 3 (6.00%) REST
4 3 (6.00%) Terraform
5 2 (4.00%) CrewAI
5 2 (4.00%) Kafka
5 2 (4.00%) LangChain
5 2 (4.00%) LangGraph
5 2 (4.00%) Model Context Protocol
5 2 (4.00%) RESTful
5 2 (4.00%) Spring
5 2 (4.00%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.00%) OAuth
6 1 (2.00%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.00%) Cloud Native
1 8 (16.00%) Mobile Banking
2 7 (14.00%) Management Information System
3 5 (10.00%) Credit Risk
3 5 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.00%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (4.00%) Mobile Wallet
4 2 (4.00%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (2.00%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.00%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.00%) Online Banking
5 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (56.00%) AI
2 20 (40.00%) Analytics
2 20 (40.00%) Machine Learning
3 19 (38.00%) Software Engineering
4 13 (26.00%) Data Science
5 11 (22.00%) Regulatory Compliance
6 10 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 10 (20.00%) Generative AI
7 9 (18.00%) Data Privacy
7 9 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (18.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (18.00%) Test Automation
8 8 (16.00%) Decision-Making
8 8 (16.00%) DevOps
9 7 (14.00%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (14.00%) Information Governance
9 7 (14.00%) Microservices
9 7 (14.00%) OO
9 7 (14.00%) OOP
9 7 (14.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 27 (54.00%) Python
2 20 (40.00%) Java
3 15 (30.00%) SQL
4 9 (18.00%) C#
5 7 (14.00%) C++
5 7 (14.00%) Go
5 7 (14.00%) Kotlin
5 7 (14.00%) Rust
5 7 (14.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (14.00%) Azure Certification
2 5 (10.00%) Degree
3 3 (6.00%) Master's Degree
4 2 (4.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.00%) GDPR
2 5 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 5 (10.00%) EU AI Act
3 2 (4.00%) ISO 20022
3 2 (4.00%) PCI DSS
3 2 (4.00%) PMO
3 2 (4.00%) PSD2
4 1 (2.00%) GRC
4 1 (2.00%) ISO 9001
4 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (14.00%) EnCase
1 7 (14.00%) FTK
2 5 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.00%) Grafana
3 2 (4.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (24.00%) Google
1 12 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.00%) Cellebrite
2 7 (14.00%) Nuix
2 7 (14.00%) Relativity
3 4 (8.00%) Databricks
4 3 (6.00%) OpenAI
5 2 (4.00%) Informatica
6 1 (2.00%) Amplitude
6 1 (2.00%) EMC
6 1 (2.00%) Revolut
6 1 (2.00%) Workday